Rod Meade Sperry

A Beginner's Guide to Meditation

Rod Meade Sperry

A Beginner's Guide to Meditation

Practical Advice and Inspiration from Contemporar

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UPC: 9781611800579

Release Date: 3/11/2014

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Biographical note:

ROD MEADE SPERRY is an editor and writer for the Shambhala Sun, North America's leading Buddhist-inspired magazine. He was a founding member of what is now called Boundless Way Zen, a rapidly growing Buddhist community based in New England.

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A practical, accessible guide to the fundamentals of Buddhist meditation, with pointers from some of today's most respected Buddhist teachers, including Pema Chödrön, Thich Nhat Hanh, Cyndi Lee, and Sharon Salzberg.

As countless meditators have learned firsthand, meditation practice can positively transform the way we see and experience our lives. This authoritative guide to Buddhist meditation will introduce readers to the practice, explain how it is approached in the main schools of Buddhism, and offer advice and inspiration from Buddhism's most renowned and effective meditation teachers, including Pema Chödrön, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Matthieu Ricard. Topics include how to build excitement and energy to start a meditation routine and keep it going, setting up a meditation space, working with and through boredom, what to look for when seeking others to meditate with, how to know when it's time to try doing a formal meditation retreat, how to bring the practice "off the cushion" with walking meditation and other practices, and much more.

PART THREE: A TASTE OF ZAZEN Sitting Zen …… John Daishin Buksbazen This Life Which Is Wonderful and Evanescent …… Blanche Hartman The Practices of Zen …… James Ishmael Ford Going Nowhere …… Lewis Richmond The Power of Koan Practice …… John Tarrant Study Yourself …… Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

PART FOUR: INDO-TIBETAN INNOVATIONS What the Practice Can Do …… John Powers Buddhist Meditation is Relaxing With the Truth …… Pema Chödrön Developing the Mind of Great Capacity …… The Fourteenth Dalai Lama Looking Into Lojong, or Mind Training …… Judy Lief You Can Do It! …… Pema Chödrön Mahamudra and Dzogchen: Thought-Free Wakefulness …… Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche